Auntie Doris
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Date: 22 February 2007 08:36:21
Auntie Doris
One of my big heroines is my Auntie Doris and it is after her that I chose to be named on the Ship of Fools. During our visit to the Occupation Museum yesterday if asked the owner if he had any pictures of her, and whilst he didn't have any on display, he produced a book which had a chapter about her and the work she did during the occupation. It turns out that she and a few other people ran a soup kitchen at Cobo and the guy at the museum said that they probably saved hundreds of lives. The book stated that during mid 1943 they provided 21,504 meals with the very little they had available. Auntie Doris was an amazing lady who I remembered well for making very sweet apple pies, and jam and banana sandwiches. She was a spinster and a devoted Christian and the book also comments that she regarded every provision of food as an answer to her prayers. She truly was an amazing woman, and I am quite sure that our lives would be less rich if we had never known her.